The start of a project always feels like the beginning of a romance—everything feels new, you have high hopes of it succeeding, and you’re at the most confident and energetic at this point. Some might argue that the sketching of wireframes is the most enjoyable part of a task; what follows after that often falls into clockwork.

“We’ve all been in that situation as developers,” empathized Alex Corrado, a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft’s ‘Xamarin Designer’ team.

“Getting your ideas for a new app or feature onto paper is one of the fastest, most natural parts of the brainstorming process. But then, you ultimately need to turn that sketch into code and sooner than you know it, 10, 20, 30 iterations of a sketch really add up.”

Corrado and a team of interns at Microsoft Garage have thus developed ‘Ink to Code’, an AI experiment that converts rough “napkin sketches” into solid prototypes that are instantly useable on Microsoft Visual Studio.

Fast Co Design notes that even Microsoft Garage relies on quick drawings to illustrate its ideas. “Every time one of our teams will build out a feature, the first thing we do is we draw it by hand, before we even touch a computer,” one of the app’s creators, George Matthews, told the publication. “[But] we thought we could do something better.”

While ‘Ink to Code’ will help you jumpstart your designing process, the program is still in its early stages. “[Y]ou still have to connect all those placeholder buttons and images with real code inside another editor,” Fast Co Design explained.

In spite of these hiccups, the timesaving app will still help you skip a step or two and streamline your entire workflow. It’s also free to use, and Microsoft isn’t calling it a “product” yet.

Matthews is optimistic that ‘Ink to Code’ will become a full-fledged, non-coding tool. “I’ll admit to being a little bit obsessed with this idea right now. I care very deeply about it.” Download it here.